Digital Art by Christiane Paul
October 3, 2009
This reading is about the history of Digital Art, how it came to be, artist involved in the movement, and different terms associated with the art form. The reading talks about how digital art fits under the category of New Media, but that is debatable because people were thinking of concepts dealing with the same thing digital art deals with now a very long time ago. Digital Art is a finicky art form because it can be used to create art or it can be used as the art itself, on the screen. A lot of things about technology are taken for granted, at least from my generation. We grew up with the computer and don’t know what it was like to have a computer without a mouse. Thanks to Engelbart we can make the connection between the screen and our hand.
Duchamp has been a very influential character in digital art, which is most likely the reason he is my favorite artist, and the maker of my favorite art piece, The Nude Descending. He is know as one of the first to think about concept as art, and this is how I like to think about art as well. One thing I had not known before reading this excerpt by Christiane Paul is how far back digital art really went. According to the reading, Paul states that as early as the 1960s people were making art with the computer. I am grateful for all the developments in digital art and technology. Now we have things to look to for inspiration and ways to advance digital art.
